Senegal and China on Tuesday signed an agreement on the dispatch
of a Chinese medical team to serve at a hospital in Dakar.
Senegalese Health Minister Abdou Fall and Chinese Ambassador Lu
Shaye signed the cooperation accord on behalf of their respective
governments.
The Chinese medical team comprising 16 doctors is preparing to
leave Beijing for Senegal to work for two years at a hospital in
the suburbs of Dakar, Lu said at the signing ceremony.
The agreement is part of the aid package to Africa announced by
Chinese President Hu Jintao at last year's Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation, according to the Chinese ambassador.
The Senegalese minister hailed the agreement as a milestone in
efforts by the two countries to strengthen medical cooperation. The
Senegalese government will try its best to ensure cooperation with
China in personnel training, medical study, as well as the
treatment and control of chronic diseases, he said.
China will also deliver 2 million yuan (US$256,410) worth of
malaria medicines under a separate agreement signed on Tuesday by
the Senegalese and Chinese officials.
(Xinhua News Agency April 18, 2007)
